Crisis Intervention Can Prevent Future Suicides
The importance of acute and immediate counseling on traumatic scenes of grief are essential in preventing further damage. Crisis intervention hopes to lower the immediate trauma and to start the process of mourning in a healthy and safe fashion. Crisis Intervention is also needed for teens who have contemplated suicide.
Foxnews.com writes in “CDC: Teen Suicide Attempts on the Rise” about the alarming increase of teen suicide attempts. This only reiterates the importance of good crisis counseling.
Scary statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released Thursday revealed that the number of attempted suicides among teenagers had increased from 6.3 percent in 2009 to 7.8 percent in 2011.
The information comes from the CDC’s 2011 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), a report designed to find health-risk behaviors among youth and young adults related to injury and violence, sexual behaviors, alcohol, and drugs. Along with the increase in attempted suicides, the survey also showed an increase in teens texting behind the wheel along with an increase in marijuana use.
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